Microsoft just snapped up a coding platform that's hugely popular among software developers around the world.The tech giant is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion, it announced Monday. GitHub was last valued at $1.9 billion, according to CB Insights.

Microsoft doesn't have a good track record when it comes to buying up platforms, and promising not to change things. Github is one of the central sources for open source coding.

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